Michel Gondry Quotes

People often tell me how much they love the digital skies that we obviously painted for 'War Horse.' Well, there's not a single sky that we put in through special effects. The skies you see in the movie are the skies that we experienced - but it was definitely challenging at times.

I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a green screen movie, it's like doing independent New York theater because you don't have any backgrounds or props. So it's kind of like making the lowest budgeted film you could possibly imagine, plus $100 million.

Ever since 'Star Wars,' there was a rash of how a movie was made. I remember that as a kid. I never really understood how movies were made until that movie, because it was such a technical accomplishment. Since then, you've seen more and more and more, for all different kinds of films, about what goes into the process.

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

Making movies is about creating illusions, and they can be subtle illusions, but it's all a cumulative effect as you make these little tweaks. It kinda adds up to something, hopefully.

Scale is not just something that a director wants so as to play with all the toys. Scale also lends verisimilitude, to put together a real world.

While it's easy to sit back and cherry pick bad visual effects and blame the industry for making movies the way they are, you're really not seeing the whole picture.

Arachnophobia' was one of the first films I did major effects for.

A lot of things in films are cheated with the use of camera tricks, so while it may feel unnatural to do, when you look at the result, you realise that it is right.

I do understand sometimes when actors say there's no one to talk to, or you can't react to, there's truth in that, but for me, I've always enjoyed green screen, and blue screen.

I don't like movies that are shot on green screen much, you know. I mean, I know that's the thing to do, and I know that it's getting. I'll put it this way; David Lean would probably kill himself, you know, again if he knew that people were watching Lawrence of Arabia on a telephone.

I never really understood how movies were made, because it was such a technical accomplishment.

I love doing films, action films, anything I can get into that is produced at a high level, really use my skills.

I love movies and I'm interested in watching how they're made and everything.

I want to do content-oriented plus commercial films.

With any movie at all the challenge lies in the storytelling.

I just happen to love film-making.

I have always wanted to make a movie, in fact I always wanted to direct someday. But I never thought I would be a producer.

I liked Rajamouli's 'Eega.' He is a great technician, and I would be happy to get a chance to work with him.

I'd love to make a horror movie, that's definitely where I want to be one day.

I must admit, strong films are more interesting to me, as, by the end of the day's shooting, you feel good.

With good content, a solid director can make a film without a superstar.

Maybe 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona' didn't have a lot of visual effects in it, but most movies have some sort of visual effects.

I enjoy production more than acting, as one is involved in many aspects of film-making.

Making 'Pacific Rim' was a lot like what you imagined making movies would be like when you were 12.